Photo: Lighting up on Capitol Hill after pot measure passes

A 30-year-old woman smokes marijuana in a street party in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood Tuesday after election returns showed the passage of a measure to legalize pot. (Photo by Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

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